Editorial Desk :
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) K M Nurul Huda had learned in time that when a party government remains in charge of whole administration the responsibility of ensuring free and fair election depends on the government.
Indeed it is a rare honesty for one who will be in charge of holding free and fair election to admit it does not wholly depend on him to do that. So he should have come out with an idea of how to neutralise the administration with the party government determined to win the election. Everybody knows the key to hold a free and fair election and bringing all political parties to election and make it acceptable to all depends on how the government machinery will be kept out of bias for one party against another.
What is true now to the Chief Election Commissioner is that it is not possible for him alone to hold free and fair election by keeping the Awami League government in power with clear determination about wining the election and continuing in power.
The attitude of the Awami League is too clear for anybody not to see. The government party men do not feel any need of
making any concessions for ensuring its neutrality at the time of election. The Constitution was amended to bury an election time neutral caretaker government by a parliament which has not properly been elected.
It clearly shows the critical stands of the government not to make the election inclusive, least to speak about creating a neutral government to hold a free and fair election. People know it well that keeping the Prime Minister, her Cabinet of ministers and parliament not dissolved the election results are as sure as being in the bag of the government.
Now that the CEC knows about his limitations that it does not depend on him alone to ensure free election when the party government shall remain in control of the whole administration, he must come with ideas about the ways of saving the election from the influence of the party government over the administration.
The Chief Election Commissioner should be knowing that under the parliamentary system, national elections do no take place without dissolving the parliament. So it is upon the CEC to take the issue with the government insisting on dissolving the parliament to make seats vacant for election.
The Chief Election Commissioner must not betray the people to hold the national election unless he is sure that he has the conditions created by the government conducive for free and fair election. Everywhere under parliamentary system the general elections are held under an unelected caretaker government. The leadership of that government has to vary upon how much the political leaders believe in their honesty in election affairs.
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) K M Nurul Huda had learned in time that when a party government remains in charge of whole administration the responsibility of ensuring free and fair election depends on the government.
Indeed it is a rare honesty for one who will be in charge of holding free and fair election to admit it does not wholly depend on him to do that. So he should have come out with an idea of how to neutralise the administration with the party government determined to win the election. Everybody knows the key to hold a free and fair election and bringing all political parties to election and make it acceptable to all depends on how the government machinery will be kept out of bias for one party against another.
What is true now to the Chief Election Commissioner is that it is not possible for him alone to hold free and fair election by keeping the Awami League government in power with clear determination about wining the election and continuing in power.
The attitude of the Awami League is too clear for anybody not to see. The government party men do not feel any need of
making any concessions for ensuring its neutrality at the time of election. The Constitution was amended to bury an election time neutral caretaker government by a parliament which has not properly been elected.
It clearly shows the critical stands of the government not to make the election inclusive, least to speak about creating a neutral government to hold a free and fair election. People know it well that keeping the Prime Minister, her Cabinet of ministers and parliament not dissolved the election results are as sure as being in the bag of the government.
Now that the CEC knows about his limitations that it does not depend on him alone to ensure free election when the party government shall remain in control of the whole administration, he must come with ideas about the ways of saving the election from the influence of the party government over the administration.
The Chief Election Commissioner should be knowing that under the parliamentary system, national elections do no take place without dissolving the parliament. So it is upon the CEC to take the issue with the government insisting on dissolving the parliament to make seats vacant for election.
The Chief Election Commissioner must not betray the people to hold the national election unless he is sure that he has the conditions created by the government conducive for free and fair election. Everywhere under parliamentary system the general elections are held under an unelected caretaker government. The leadership of that government has to vary upon how much the political leaders believe in their honesty in election affairs.
